On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, October 28, 2012 9:18 am, Len Ovens wrote: >> >> On Sat, October 27, 2012 1:50 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> >>>> PCI is dead, >>> >>> Alot of people would love to upgrade their older pci cards to new mobos. >>> It's becoming a real hassle to find boards that allow that. >> >> As an owner of an older PCI audio interface... I have been putting some >> thought to this. I remember that there was a time not too long ago when >> people were using old DX100s as routers. Boot from a floppy and run in >> memory (not much either), no drive, no fan in the PSU or on the CPU. >> >> Maybe instead of getting rid of the old MB... pull the graphics card >> (first thing to go anyway) Run a minimal linux (terminal only) that runs >> netjack. Now you have an ethernet sound interface. Plug into the new box >> (maybe on it's own NIC) and run netjack instead of jackd. >> > > This is a proven method for building out a relatively cheap high > performance netjack cluster. > > Taking it a step further it can also be used for rendering with blender > and cinelerra. In that case having the graphics card is also useful. > > > -- > Patrick Shirkey > Boost Hardware Ltd > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Surprisingly, the place I buy parts from has 22 Core i? motherboards that range from 1-4 PCI slots and 20 new AMD A-Series (socket FM2). I was happy to see that, as I have to build a new system and I'd like to use my old PCI Delta 66. On a related note, does anyone have any experience with AMD A-series? While I would like to support Intel, AMD seems a lot more cost-effective, and the built-in graphics are better. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
